EDUCATION

Chandler elementary celebrates new media center

Chandler Unified leaders and others prepare to cut a ribbon on Jan. 30 to celebrate Frye Elementary School’s new HUB Media Center.

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A ribbon falls to the floor at Frye Elementary after a Frye student, center, Frye Principal Alexis Cruz-Freeman, Chandler Unified Board President Patti Serrano and CUSD Superintendent Frank Narducci, all holding scissors, smile during a Jan. 30 ceremony unveiling Frye’s new media center. (Independent Newsmedia/Jason W. Brooks)

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A band stays ready for a cue from Frye Elementary School as its faculty leader plays the saxophone Jan. 30, 2025.

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Frye Elementary cheerleaders perform an appreciation Jan. 30 for the construction team that completed their school’s newly unveiled media center.

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Chandler Chamber of Commerce Director Terri Kimble hands a microphone back to Frye Elementary Principal Alexis Cruz-Freeman at the school’s Jan. 30 media center ribbon-cutting.

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Freddy Falcon, left, next to Frye Elementary Principal Alexis Cruz-Freeman, listen as Chandler Unified Superintendent Frank Narducci speaks Jan. 30 at a ribbon-cutting for the school’s new media center.

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Frye Elementary School students sing a song at a Jan. 30 celebrate for the school’s new media center.

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Sue Gray of BWS Architects speaks during a Jan. 30 ribbon-cutiing for Frye Elementary School’s new media center.

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Joining the nationwide trend of adding media centers, elementary school Frye Elementary in Chandler held a Jan. 30 ribbon-cutting that included lots of clapping.

And instrumental music. And cheer. And singing.

That’s what happened as Frye students, faculty, staff and Chandler Unified leadership joined in. The ribbon-cutting celebrated all the new facets of Frye’s HUB Media Center, paid for with 2019 bond funds.

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